
IIT Madras awarded 3,518 degrees to 3,106 students during its 63rd Convocation, including 511 PhDs. Four students received top honours for academic excellence and overall achievements. Ashwin Subramanian Murugan won the President of India Prize and Bharat Ratna M Visvesvaraya Memorial Prize, while Anirudh Rao, Mith R Jain, B Haricharan and Aravindan Kamatchi Sundaram received other prestigious awards. The ceremony also featured remarks from President of Zanzibar Dr. Hussein Ali Mwinyi on technology and innovation.